Excitation Energy Transfer Processes in Condensed Matter

Abstract

This book presents an account of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Energy Transfer Processes in Condensed Matter", held in Erice, Italy, from June 16 to June 30, 1983. This meeting was organized by the International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy of the "Ettore Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture. The objective of the Institute was to present a comprehensive treatment of the basic mechanisms by which electronic excitation energy, initially localized in a particular constituent or region of a condensed material, transfers itself to the other parts of the system. Energy transfer processes are important to such varied .fields as spectroscopy, lasers, phosphor technology, artificial solar energy conversion, and photobiology. This meeting was the first encounter of this sort entirely dedicated to this important topic. A total of 65 participants came from 47 laboratories and 16 nations (Belgium, Czechoslovakia, F.R. of Germany, France, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States of A America). The secretaries of the course were: Ms. Aliki Karipidou for the scientific aspects and Mr. Massimo Minella for the admini strative aspects of the meeting. To Energy Transfer and Relevant Solid-State Concepts -- to Energy Transfer and Relevant Solid-State Concepts -- Energy Transfer among Ions in Solids -- Mathematical Methods for the Description of Energy Transfer -- Energy Transfer in Insulating Materials -- Energy Transfer in Semiconductors -- Triplet Excitation Transfer Studies in Organic Condensed Matter via Cooperative Effects -- Energy Transfer in Solid Rare Gases -- Energy Transfer and Localization in Ruby -- Energy Transfer and Ionic Solid State Lasers -- A Scalar Field Strength Parameter for Rare-Earth Ions: Meaning and Application to Energy Transfers -- Energy Transfer between Inorganic Ion in Glasses -- Non-Equilibrium Concepts in Solar Energy Conversion -- Long Seminars -- Magneto-Optical Study of Energy Transfer in Ruby -- Spectroscopic Studies of Energy Transfer in Solids -- Dynamical Models of Energy Transfer in Condensed Matter -- Energy Transfer and Electron Transfer in Photobiological, Photochemical, and Photoelectrochemical Processes (Abstract only) -- An Example of Identifying the Specific Mechanism of Resonant Energy Transfer: Sb3+? Mn2+ in Fluoro-Phosphate Phosphors (Abstract only) -- Energy Transfer and Anderson Localization in Ruby Electric Field and Uniaxial Stress Effects -- Time-Resolved Studies of Energy Transfer -- Trends in Scientific Computing -- Short Seminars -- Photoconductivity of Indium in Silicon -- Nonlinear Energy Transfer in Semiconductors Yielding Bistability -- Luminescence and Energy Transfer In YA1G:Nd, Ce -- Energy Transfer Effects in NaEuTiO4 -- Energy Transfer in Antiferromagnetic Alkali Manganese Halide Crystals -- Auger Effect Due to Shallow Donors in CdF2:Mn Luminescence -- Energy Transfer Processes in Znse:Ni, Fe -- On the Role of Nonlocalized Excitation Mechanisms in the Generation of Red Er3+ Emission in CdF2:Er, Yb -- The General Three-Dimensional Haken-Strobl Model -- The Luminescence Spectrum of U02mo04 -- Contributors.